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Chemistry

I've written about a number of chemistry packages in the past
and all of the computational chemistry that you can do in a Linux
environment. But, what is fundamental to chemistry? Why, the elements, of
course. So in this article, I focus on how you can learn more about the elements
that make up everything around you with Kalzium. KDE's Kalzium is kind of like a periodic table
on steroids. Not only does it have information on each of the elements,
it also has extra functionality to do other types of calculations.

Let's dig back into some chemistry software to see what kind
of work you can do on your Linux machine. Specifically, let's look at
Jmol, a Java application that is available as both a desktop application
and a web-based applet.

For this article, I thought I'd introduce another chemistry
application—specifically, BKChem, a free chemical drawing program.
As opposed to many other chemistry
applications, BKChem provides both a nice GUI for constructing molecules
and a set of chemical analysis tools to look at the properties of the newly
constructed molecule.